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Old 08-16-2010, 11:44 AM
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You're going to spend 'big money' anyway getting a flawless interior from another truck.
Get together with a quality upholstery shop and you might be pleasantly surprised what it will cost to make your existing seats more comfortable.
I've gone this route with clients with their private jets for 3 decades, and it always costs a helluva lot less money to refurb what you have than to purchase new.
 
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Old 08-16-2010, 11:50 AM
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I will certainly look into it. I live on the coast so there are a TON of great shops here that deal with yachts, etc. Thanks!
 
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big money

spending big money on upholstery will be way cheaper than 2011 seats plus fabbing them if needed.
 
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Originally Posted by hkaiser83
F250/F350 front seats are a direct bolt in!

I purchased some F250 Harley Edition seats and the fronts bolted right in and were WELL worth it.


Nice, did you upholster the top of your center cabinet ? I'm having mine wood laminated, photos coming soon

Gonna leave my seats alone for now. Thinking of upholstering the dash & a pillars w black alcantara
 
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Nice, did you upholster the top of your center cabinet ? I'm having mine wood laminated, photos coming soon

Gonna leave my seats alone for now. Thinking of upholstering the dash & a pillars w black alcantara
Actually that's the console from a Harley F250. They are totally kickass! I got it as a set with the door panels too. Unfortunately the rear door panels don't fit. I recently got the Harley dash from an 06 but I haven't finished fixing the stereo mounting setup so I don't want to show it haha.

Upholstering with black alcantara would be pretty awesome.
 
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Nice, got any exterior shots ?
 
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Nice, got any exterior shots ?
Maybe....but she's going in for surgery on Thursday to fix how short she is so I'll be waiting for that to post pictures... hehehe
 
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Originally Posted by HUBBSTER
Thinking of upholstering the dash & a pillars w black alcantara
Alcantara would definitely look good. I've always liked the idea of putting alcantara on the headliner, a, b, c, and d pillars, and the inserts of the seats. It would also look good on the dashboard and even the door panels although I think i would prefer leather on the majority of the dash board and door panels.
 
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thats a whale of a headliner to redo in alcantara
 
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Originally Posted by HUBBSTER
thats a whale of a headliner to redo in alcantara
That sure would I've always liked the headliners from the large luxury sedans like the Audi A8, or Mercedes-Benz S-Class or any other luxury vehicle with a suede/alcantara headliner.
 
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Guess I have an interior fetish going on. Heres a VW Toureg Race truck interior, pretty cool
 
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I'm going to assume this wouldn't be all that difficult to do since the 2011 SuperDuties share seats with the F-150...anyways, I would love to have the seats from a Raptor in an Excursion. I love bolstering on my seats and the Raptor's has a nice amount of that. New upholstery would of course be called for. Alcantara would go nicely in the middle sections on the seat top and bottom.

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Did you think of just going and have them reupholstered?
 
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Thinking of getting a Raptor 6.2

If I do I'd consider putting Raptor seats in the Ex and racing seats in the Raptor
 
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Originally Posted by HUBBSTER
Thinking of getting a Raptor 6.2

If I do I'd consider putting Raptor seats in the Ex and racing seats in the Raptor
Do it just so you can report back on how the seats work in the Excursion
 


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